PL.04 14/15 Planning Committee 23 July 2014 Subject: Planning applications for determination Report by: Director of Regeneration and Planning Contact Officer: Zoë Raygen Acting Area Team Manager 01427 676673 The report contains details of planning Purpose / Summary: applications that require determination by the committee together with appropriate appendices RECOMMENDATION(S): Each item has its own recommendation 1 IMPLICATIONS Legal: None arising from this report. Financial : None arising from this report. Staffing : None arising from this report. Equality and Diversity including Human Rights : The planning applications have been considered against Human Rights implications especially with regard to Article 8 – right to respect for private and family life and Protocol 1, Article 1 – protection of property and balancing the public interest and well-being of the community within these rights. Risk Assessment : None arising from this report. Climate Related Risks and Opportunities : None arising from this report. Title and Location of any Background Papers used in the preparation of this report: Are detailed in each individual item Call in and Urgency: Is the decision one which Rule 14.7 of the Scrutiny Procedure Rules apply? i.e. is the report exempt from being called in due to Yes No x urgency (in consultation with C&I chairman) Key Decision: A matter which affects two or more wards, or has Yes No x significant financial implications 2 Item 1 - Saxilby 1 Item 1 - Saxilby Officer’s Report Planning Application No: 131174 PROPOSAL: Outline planning application for residential development for upto 230 dwellings including a 60 dwelling retirement village, to include associated estate roads and open space. Access to be considered and not reserved for subsequent applications. LOCATION: Land At Church Lane Saxilby Lincoln Lincolnshire LN1 2PE WARD: Saxilby WARD MEMBER(S): Councillor D Cotton, Councillor J Brockway APPLICANT NAME: Lindum Homes, Pamela Mason and Caroline Madden TARGET DECISION DATE: 23/06/2014 DEVELOPMENT TYPE: Large Major - Dwellings RECOMMENDED DECISION: Delegate to the Chief Operating Officer to Grant planning permission subject to Conditions and the signing of a S106 agreement which delivers the following: 25% affordable housing Contribution of £97,750 towards the cost of primary health care provision If the S106 agreement is not signed within 6 months of the date of Committee then the application be reported back to the next appropriate Committee for further consideration and determination. SUMMARY 1. Contributions to infrastructure and 25% affordable housing will be delivered to respond to the requirements raised by the development 2. There is a presumption in favour of sustainable development in the NPPF 3. This is a development that, subject to conditions and the signing of a section 106 agreement, is economically, socially and environmentally sustainable and therefore accords with the guiding principles of the NPPF 4. Significant development is required to maintain a five year deliverable supply of housing that is required by the NPPF 5. Central Lincolnshire can only evidence a 3.5 years housing land supply 1 2 Item 1 - Saxilby Description The application site forms an area of 10.1 hectares of agricultural land to the south of Church Lane in Saxilby. The site is bounded by Church Lane to the north and Canon Cook Close to the north east. On the opposite side of Church Lane there is housing (mixed bungalows and houses) and commercial premises before returning to agricultural land to the west. To the east is housing within Century Close with the application site extending in part to the south of the Century Lane development up to Church Lane. To the south there is housing with a public open space adjacent to the application site. There is an existing hedge to the north, west and southern boundaries. The application is in outline form for up to 230 houses (to include up to 60 houses for a retirement village) with all matters to be reserved for future approval apart from access. The application proposes two access roads to the site from Church Lane. The application was deferred at your last meeting on the 25th June for a site visit. The site visit took place on 10th July 2014. Relevant history: There is no planning history on the site. Representations: Chairman/Ward member(s): Request that the application be considered at Planning Committee Parish/Town Council/Meeting: Saxilby Parish Council have the following observations to make: Additional traffic on Church Lane. Increased traffic issues at the Mill Lane/Queensway/A57 junction. Exacerbating existing traffic issues on High Street. Width of Church Lane to the west of the development invariably used as a traffic route into Sykes Lane and therefore the village. Additional pressures on Saxilby School. Additional pressures on GP surgery. Problems caused by work to be necessary on High Street to facilitate development/ Overlooking to Warwick Close – should be a bigger green belt area. Cumulative effect of number of developments, each taken in isolation. Transport assessment is flawed and own figures submitted. Lighting scheme required to improve security from development to Church Road main roads. 2 3 Item 1 - Saxilby Support green spaces and that these are annexed to existing areas. Local residents: 68 letters of objection received from residents at The Warren, Sykes Lane, 24 Church Lane, 6 Church Lane, 2 Canon Cook Close, Maple House, 26 Warwick Close, 19 Lingfield Close, 59 Church Lane; 3 South Parade, 5 Woodhall Crescent, 18 St Botolphs Gate, 4 Salisbury Close; 16 Church Lane, 64 Mill Lane, 11 Church Lane, 17 Sykes Lane, Orchard Cottage 3 Orchard Lane, 15 Eastcroft, 8 Church Lane, 7 Willow Close x 2, 117 High Street, 18 Church Lane 17 St Botolph’s Gate x 2, 2 Westcroft Drive, 1a Sykes Lane, 10 Church Lane, 1 St Botolph’s Gate x 2, 11 Westcroft Drive, 25 Warwick Close, 17 Church Lane, 28Church Lane, 2 St Botolphsgate, 25 Thonock Drive, 17f Church Lane, 75 Church Lane, 1 Kenilworth Close, 5 Westcroft Drive, 2 Church Lane, 17a Church Lane, 17 Lingfield Close, 18 St Botolphs Gate, Westfield Westcroft Drive, 11 Maiden Court, 5 Church Lane, 17G Church Lane, 4 Warwick Close, 36 Church Lane, 59 Westcroft Drive, 1 Ballerini Way, 53 Church Lane, 19 canon Cook Close, 45 Church Lane, 17 St Botolph’s Gate, 3 St Botolph’s Gate, 12 Canon Cook Close, 14 Bartholomew Tipping Way Buckinghamshire, 6 Fleets Road, Sturton by Stow, 6 Wells Court, 27 St Botolph’s Gate, 21 Lingfields Close, 9 Church Lane, 17E Church Lane, 10 Kenilworth Close, 19b Church Lane, 3 Cemetery Lane on the following issues: Existing Flood Betterment Scheme on Sykes Lane needs to be improved to ensure flooding does not occur. Construction traffic should not be allowed to use single track lane to access site. Between junction of Sykes Lane and up to the brow of hill on Church Lane should be made one way only. Quiet residential street on edge of village, this will make access very difficult for existing and new residents. How will school cope with the extra children? How will medical practices cope with extra people? Fail to see how Church Lane will cope with additional traffic . Road needs widening, road is extremely narrow and cannot take planned level of traffic. Cars parked on road make it difficult for other cars and HGVs to get passed. Road needs resurfacing and double yellow lines . 230 houses seems excessive in Saxilby when there is land on the City edges. High amount of properties adjacent to Lingfield Close. What will happen to dyke network in front of 17 and 19 Lingfield and how will drainage be affected? What will happen to the pathway at the side of Lingfield Views from property over open fields will be affected. Noise from development. No need for new houses. Nursery on the tight S bend makes it chaotic and dangerous to drive past in the morning and afternoon. 3 4 Item 1 - Saxilby Extra traffic at A57 junction will make it more dangerous. Parking at Church and Church Hall make it difficult for vehicles to get past. Site should not be considered until Local Plan and Neighbourhood Plan is adopted as site outside of development limit. Destroy the visual amenity of the rural scene. Concerned about surface water management. More green space should be created in the development. St Botolph’s church has no parking, the children’s nursery has increased its capacity , HGv vehicles use Church Lane and agricultural traffic has not been considered. All of these will make the access route dangerous. Building on this land will significantly affect the character of the village in this area and spoil the views from the well used footpaths between Church Lane and Westcroft Drive and along the boundary of the field in question. Longhurst Group: Longhurst Group are fully in support of this application & have been liaising with Lindum on the provision & management of the proposed retirement scheme & affordable housing. We are certain of the desperate need for specially designed accommodation for older people in this area & the site itself is perfectly located for the nearby facilities that older people rely upon Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust: We have read the ecological information submitted with the application and are satisfied that there should not be any significant negative impacts on protected species as a result of the proposed works provided the consultant’s recommendations are followed. Whilst recognising that the details of the landscaping scheme are a reserved matter, we would wish to comment generally on opportunities for biodiversity enhancement of the site. We are generally pleased with the proposed levels of open space indicated by the masterplan. Wherever possible the open space should contribute towards biodiversity enhancement of the site, for instance through the use of native, species rich seed mixes in place of standard amenity turf.